So I'm kind of in the middle of a sneezing fit, which is not
opportune for the podcast. So we were going to start this about sixty seconds
ago, and then the sneezing started, and Dave it is just like he
can't do just one. I'm one of those people that usually I just do
one and then I'm done. Dave has about ten in the row. At
a minimum, it's I would say, it's usually like four. This is
You're probably on like ten right now, though, oh at least yeah.
And the bad thing is is it makes me hoarse because I can't stop,
and I try to blow my nose and here we go, let it out.
Okay, well, now do you look up at the light or the
sun? Went to help? Because that's what I do to get it out
sometimes sometimes. Okay, Jenny, you're ready, I'm ready. If you're
ready, I'm ready. I'll try to get started on the Minnesota Goodbye.
Here we go, Bailey says Dave. I'm writing to you because I'm looking
for some career advice in the radio podcasting industry. I'm twenty five. Went
school at a four year college in the Cities and graduated a few years ago.
Currently working a corporate job in the Cities. When I was in college,
I did a show on the school's radio station, which wasn't about anything
particular, more so me into others talking about current events. But I really
enjoyed being on the radio cool. I've always been intrigued by the thought of
having a real life talk radio show or podcast since I was young. I
envisioned my show more news current events, given my spin with possible guests.
People have told me I have a great radio voice, and I've been wanting
to record some demo shows, but I'm a bit at a crossroads with formatting
the show and going through with it. Do you have any advice for getting
into the radio business with the goal of possibly having my own show one day,
or if anyone's starting my own podcast at home or anything starting my own
podcast at home and launching online? Are there many opportunities at radio stations if
I were to start out of the role of an on air talent and work
my way over to being able to prove myself on the air. Thanks Dave.
That is from Bailey Bailey. First of all, love that name.
People used to ask me all the time, how do I get into radio?
I don't know anymore. I truly don't, and I'm not trying to
be facetious or funny. It used to be like, well, get an
internship or go to Brown College and then apply to a radio station. Well
there's no more internships, there's no more Brown College. They used to have
a broadcasting class, and there is no more money. So here at iHeart,
I don't know how to get into radio. Do you have anything to
tell Bailey on how to get into radio in twenty twenty three, I would
say if she does start a podcast, that's a good start to show you
have some kind of audio production experience. You're willing to get your voice out
there. Just know that if you're brand new starting it's probably going to sound
completely different when you do day one versus day fifty or episode fifty, which
is good because that shows your growth. But honestly, the main thing I
tell a lot of people now is to do social media, because that is
huge. If you can show that your social media savvy and you have kind
of a presence and sort of like a brand quote unquote, but basically just
be you. You don't want to not be yourself because that's important in radio.
You need to be able to be yourself. If you can show that
through social media, that is a huge factor now when it comes to people
hiring in radio. I think that's really true because social media is kind of
on a par with radio in a lot of ways. I mean, kids
go home and whereas they used to sit in their room and do their homework
while listening to Katie WB now they'll go in the room and they'll play on
social media and not listen to the radio. But they're a great companion for
each other. So that's a really good piece of advice. I would say,
go ahead, Bailey, start a podcast, but don't be surprised when
your podcast only gets nineteen listens a week. There's so many people, and
I don't know what the secret is. I think maybe if you combine your
podcast with some really great social media you might get some traction. I'll give
you an example of the two girls that we know, Sit and Soaf and
they do Straight Candid. I don't know how they got their start, but
they do a great podcast and they also are really good at social media.
I don't know if they do it all by themselves or they up the people
that they partner with behind the scenes. I think they work with a company,
but if you look up straight Candid podcast on Instagram, you'll see that
they are really good at combining really good social media and a great podcast,
and they're very real. I do know sit and so personally. Actually I
knew them before even knowing of their podcasts, and they're just like very down
to earth girls who are very real on their podcasts, hence why it's called
straight candid. They're very candid about their lives and then they also have some
fun guests on there. But they're definitely a great example. They used to
have a videographer that did production for them. I don't know if they still
do. Yeah, I don't really follow them as much anymore. Yeah,
I'm not sure exactly how they do everything, but they're like they're on the
side of a very well produced podcast that's going to take a long time to
get there if you don't have the means to hire someone. Oh yeah,
So don't be intimidated and think you need to do what they do right away,
because they have a very highly produced and high like tons of videos and
stuff like that that go into their podcast. I would say also be unique
because there are a million in one podcasts out there and if you can find
a unique angle, I don't know what that would be or I would use
it myself, but try to be unique. Next one, Kirsten says,
I heard Dave talking about the number of apartment apartments being built nationwide. There
is a housing crisis. There are too many people looking or in need of
a home, then there are homes. Minneapolis is building a ton to combat
this problem. My issue with it is eventually you age out of an apartment,
once you get into your thirties and forties, you want to purchase a
home, condo, something you have as your own. Enjoy the show.
That is from Kirshten. This came up on the show a couple of days
ago because I said, there are almost no houses on the market right now.
The inventory of houses is so low, like the lowest it's been in
years. Why And I started to speculate, is it because rich people are
buying up homes to rent out as an airbnb or as an investment property.
I know of a home on Lake Minnetonka. Somebody bought it for two point
one million dollars in June. It's already on the market for two point six
so these people are turning a quick profit of a half a million dollars in
just June, July, August, September, three months. And it's like,
Okay, I'm all for rich people playing fair, but when rich people
buy up houses as investment properties, so nobody can afford to buy a house,
and then you have to build apartments because there are apartments everywhere everywhere,
they're building up more apartments. So I don't know. So here's another email
about apartments. This one says they buy properties and overcharge the rich buy eventually
own everything and then it's all the one percent and the government. It's a
thing in third world countries. Look it up, Naomi. I'm not going
to look it up. I will take your word for it. But yeah,
I think that you know, listen, I'm all for people getting rich,
but I don't think that rich people should be able to buy up all
the homes and turn them into investment properties and airbnbs. I think that there's
a lot. So the Bigger Pockets podcast is all I mean, it's about
a lot of different financial stuff, but it's all about investment properties. So
Andrews had kids who are twenty twenty one years old, he helps them buy
their first property with like very minimal amount done down because all these people do
have access to knowledge that you weren't able to gain twenty years ago. Because
of podcasting and TikTok or stuff like that, you can learn so much if
you really dive into that stuff. So I do believe, yes, that
there are a lot of rich people buying up properties and investment properties have become
bigger and bigger over the years. But I also think that there's a lot
of younger kids who are learning things from TikTok and podcasting and are doing it
themselves. I mean, that's great. I'm glad that people know how to
do it. I didn't buy my first house till I was thirty almost thirty
one years old, and I wish I had started earlier. Susan and I
were talking about how we've gotten screwed on every of the house that I live
in now. I lived there for twenty years, twenty years almost exactly.
It has gone up by a few thousand dollars in that time. Whereas you
hear about somebody who I bought a town house in twenty sixteen for three hundred
and fifty thousand, and now it's worth six hundred thousand. Fuck you,
good for you, But I have not experienced that. We bought the house
that I bought in Plymouth, I bought for one eighty five and I sold
it for like one eighty five after three or four years of living there.
I bought it too high. I didn't know that you don't pay asking price.
Now you have to pay asking price. So that was one. I
bought a town home in Chanhassan for maybe three hundred, sold it for like
three oh five a few years later. And then this one, Like I
said, it's gone up maybe ten thousand dollars in twenty years. But I
hear other people, but you know about this. People will buy a house
for like one hundred and eighty thousand dollars fifteen years ago and now it's worth
four hundred thousand. Well, I think you're getting what your house is worth
in terms of like an appreciation cost. But like in the end, if
you put your house on the market, you're going to get multiple offers.
I think that you really will, and so it should you should come out
a little bit more ahead than just like ten thousand dollars, I hope.
So right now we don't even want We're just so disgusted with the whole housing
market that I Susan's like, let's look at houses, look at houses,
and I'm like, I don't want to. I'm just so disgusted with you.
Either find a house that's beautiful but too expensive, or a house that's
just freaking weird. We've looked at houses. One of them had a beauty
salon sink in one of the bedrooms, so it's like the person who worked
there did hair, and upstairs, in a very brightly colored room was a
beauty salon sink that kind of you tilt your head back into. I'm like,
this is somebody's dream house, but it ain't my dream house, all
right. Next one, Naomi says, we were talking about putting dog poop
in your neighbor's trash can. Yeah. My argument is I wash out my
trash can because it has to be in my garage. Per association. Dog
pooh still stinks even through plastic bags. Also, it can fall at the
bottom and get poked. I don't want my dog. I don't want dogs
stink in my garage. Period. If it's not yours and you don't have
permission, do not throw your dog shit in my trash can o he next
one, Courtney says, I love you guys. I live in Florida.
I used to listen to the Cane Show with in turn John, who mentioned
you guys and got me listening. I miss Vallen. I messaged Jenny that
she is more than killing it it. Drake is only twenty two but brings
such relatable content for many ages and is always Dave, you ruined the entire
show. Ha ha, not at all. That was funny. You guys
make my task for the days seem attainable. You are my coffee. Thank
you for what you do. Fifth grade teacher C. J. Warner did
the math problem from Friday at a red light and got it right. Nice
good job. That was the one where Jenny and I and Drake all looked
at each other like, are you kidding me? To be fair, I
did get it right, I just went a couple steps too far. I
had. Andrew listened to it that night and tried it himself, and he
did not like math at all growing up, and so he gave it like
two seconds and the Finn He's like, I'm not doing it, and he
just gave frustrated. He's like, I was not trying to break by getting
it right. It was just that math was the strong subject for me in
school. And so it's but if you would have given me a science question,
I would have failed. I would have failed. Andrew would have failed
a science No, Andrew would have failed that math. At math, he
specifically picked his college degree because it did not involve having a math creduct.
That's how much he hated math. Okay, gotcha. I didn't hate math.
I just was not good at it, So all right. Next one,
Kim writes in I got a kick out of the mystery box bit.
That was where we had a box about the size of a large shoe box
with something inside. We had to reach inside, not being able to see
it and try to touch it. So Drake put things inside the box and
we would guess and reach in and try to touch it. Jenny was hilarious
anyway, all the road kill and raccoon talk made me want to share the
story. Our family had a Christmas game where you had to write down your
all Christmas gift initials and then you drew out of a hat and we're supposed
to buy or make a gag gift with that person's dream gift initials either my
husband or ies were our nephew's name out and his initials were d RT.
Well, we thought of dead raccoon tail and we drove around with the scissors
in our van. It was the nineties and vans were a thing until we
saw a dead raccoon. Oh my god, my husband pulls over and cuts
off the tail. Oh god. I put it at my feet on the
floor. The heat was on and it smelled so bad. When we got
home, we kept it in the garage until it was time to wrap it.
Before I did, I sprayed it with fabrize. It was definitely the
best gift of the night, although they were all pretty good. Good memories.
Thanks for the laughs. Oh, I almost forgot his initials were for
What he really wanted was dad's red truck tail. Yeah. I would assume
that's probably not what he was shooting for. That is very funny. This
one is I'm saying they hello, Hello, alexis here long shot. A
couple of years ago, there was a kat WB shirt sold at the fair
that was a Stranger Thing shirt, but it said Minnesota Things. I bought
one's probably my favorite shirt ever. I had not even watched Stranger Things yet,
but I still knew what it was and I love the shirt. Now.
I'm a huge Stranger Things fan, and I moved to Arizona. Love
your Morning show, miss Minnesota terribly and my shirt is becoming worn. Is
there any way to find and purchase another one of these shirts? Unfortunately,
no, they're all gone. I believe though that if you want to buy
a current Katie WB shirt, they're online, aren't they, Jenny there?
Are they are right now? Yes, we probably will only have them online
for the next couple of weeks, so I would say, hop online right
now at katwb dot com. Okay, and that's it from the Minnesota Goodbye.
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